Intellectuals and Politics in Central Europe / / ed. by András Bozóki.

Discussing the role of intellectuals in the political transition of the late 1980s and early 1990s and their participation in the political life of the new democracies of Central Europe, this book presents original essays from authors who discuss the eight countries in the region. In the Introductio...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
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Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [1998]
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Year of Publication:1998
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (306 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Exits from Communism: The Strategies of Intellectuals
  • Dissenting Intellectuals and Plain Dissenters: The Cases of Poland and East Germany
  • The Strategies of Intellectuals: Romania under Communist Rule in Comparative Perspective
  • Romanian Political Intellectuals before and after the Revolution
  • From Imagined to Actually Existing Democracy: lntellectuals in Slovenia
  • Words and Death: Serbian Nationalist Intellectuals
  • Part Two: Politics of Identity: Political Intellectuals in the New Democracy
  • Between Tradition and Politics: Intellectuals after Communism
  • The Inegalitarian Nature of Hungary's Intellectual Political Culture
  • The Politics of Conviction: The Rise and Fall of Czech Intellectual- Politicians
  • Green Intellectuals in Slovakia
  • Part Three: The Rhetoric of Action: The Power and Poverty of Critical Intellectuals
  • Intellectuals and Democracy: The Political Thinking of Intellectuals
  • Reaction as Progress: Economists as Intellectuals
  • Rhetoric of Action: The Language of the Regime Change in Hungary
  • Index